Stoica selected for Prototypes for Humanity exhibition
The McKelvey graduate student will present a project she developed in the lab of biologist Arpita Bose
Andreea Stoica, a PhD student in mechanical engineering, has been selected to participate in the upcoming Prototypes for Humanity exhibition in Dubai in late November.
Stoica, who is co-mentored by Mark Meacham, associate professor of mechanical engineering & materials science in the McKelvey School, and Arpita Bose, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, will present her project “Miniaturized Bio-electrochemical Reactors.”
Stoica’s project, realized with much trial and error in Bose’s lab, was designed to improve the study of electroactive bacteria that use electricity to interact with each other and with their environment. Such bacteria could be harnessed to produce usable energy from organic material. “Arpita had identified the need to find a better way to study these microbes,” Stoica said. “I was immediately drawn to the project’s potential to address some of the significant challenges facing our world.”
With assistance from other members of Bose’s lab, Stoica designed a device that uses microscopic fluid channels to precisely measure the electrical impulses coming from these bacteria. The device was constructed at the Institute for Materials Science & Engineering and Meacham’s lab.
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